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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago (44 children)

I saw the video pop up in my Youtube recommended, but didn't bother watching because I just assumed that any cars tested would be using LIDAR and thus would ignore the fake road just fine. I had no idea Tesla a) was still using basic cameras for this and b) actually had sophisticated enough "self driving" capabilities that this could be tested on them safely.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They tested a LiDAR rigged car, and it stopped just like you predicted. As of 2021, Tesla uses only cameras for FSD, and not even radar (which my stupid fine Toyota truck has).

They tested the idea safely by building the wall out of styrofoam, or at least that's what it looks like when it blows apart :)

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago

To any artists in Austin,TX: you have your work cut out for you. Godspeed.

[–] blackluster117@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still think LIDAR is inferior to computer vision, Elon?

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[–] arankays@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (27 children)

I tried Waymo when I was visiting LA a few months ago. Genuinely terrific stuff.

I do not trust Teslas one bit though.

[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Tesla doesn't use lidar for its sensing, living on the prayer that AI will just get good enough soon enough. Absolutely galaxy brained decision.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

To be fair, I'd be surprised if half the humans driving didn't do the same.

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Tesla is trash.

Fuck Elon musk.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Taking a guess here, but I think Mark Rober is not a big trump/musk fan? :D

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